Now that Hillary is back in fundraising mode, in an effort to pay off her tens of millions of dollars in debt she wracked up by continuing her campaign to damage Obama long after she'd already lost the race, Hillary and her people are putting out this talking point that Hillary took on the "highest and hardest of glass ceilings." I don't buy it. Maybe because I grew up in Chicago, but blacks had it far worse than women where I lived, and they still do where I live now. That doesn't mean women don't face prejudice, but compare a 16 year old black guy to a 16 year old white woman and tell me who in America faces a higher and harder ceiling? I don't like to compare suffering, and debate who is more worthy, but this talking point is a little offensive to blacks and anyone else still fighting for the rights in America (last time I checked, Hillary could get married.) Also, this totally misrepresents Hillary's campaign, and why she lost. She wasn't the feminist candidate until she saw that she had lost the race and needed a Hail Mary. And she didn't lose the race because of the glass ceiling, she lost because of a failure to plan, and hubris. Name one state in which Obama did better than Hillary because she was a woman and he was "only" black? I had promised myself I wasn't going to let her annoy me any more. Ugh.
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